Conference Title
Institutional Critique at the Post-Digital Turn: Museums and Databases
Link
https://imageplus.at/forschung/institutional-critique-at-the-post-digital-turn-museums-and-databases
Location
University of Applied Arts Vienna
1030 Vienna , Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
Auditorium
Date
12th and 13th of May 2022
Registration requested for on-site participation
https://pretix.eu/imageplus/konferenz2022/
Contact
Astrid Poyer
image@uni-ak.ac.at
Livestream
www.youtube.com/user/DieAngewandteWien
About
This symposium organised by the IMAGE+ Platform for Open Art Education focuses on two interconnected failures of present-day art institutions. On the one hand, museums have vigorously concretized their already existing initiatives for digitising their collections and exhibition practice during the various lockdowns by advertising this promising virtualization with its expansion of participatory possibilities museums have boosted their accessibility and strengthened democratisation of their own institutions. In doing so, museums have adopted the entrepreneurial paradigm of a profit oriented Silicon Valley tech company without, however, making the associated advertising and sales mechanisms the subject of a critical debate. On the other hand, one has to mention the failings of an exclusivist, elitist and white art history and its implementation in art institutions. Neither have sufficiently reflected on their research or their collection and display policies for decades. This is true, in particular, with respect to vestiges of racism, antisemitism, antiziganism or antiableism and an orientation towards decolonial, queer, queer-feminist or intersectional criteria. The symposium will be held in German and English.
Schedule and Topics
Focus: What has been missed so far
15:30
Welcoming (DE)
15:50
Helene Baur + Andrea Neidhöfer
Document - Object – Data. Queries on changes and gaps in the representation of contemporary art (DE)
16:30
Arif Akkılıç + Ljubomir Bratić
Who belongs to the general public and whom does the general public belong to? (DE)
17:50
Carla Bobadilla
The Invisible Threads of Ethnographic Museums (DE)
18:30
Thomas Trabitsch
Queering the Museum (DE)
Focus: Silicon Valley Web 2.0 Dynamics among other
19:30
Hande Sever
From Stereoscope to VR: Viewing Unbounded (EN)
13th of May 2022
Focus: Silicon Valley Web 2.0 Dynamics among other
10:00
Mike Pepi
The Lean Institution (EN)
10:45
Eva-Maria Gillich
Accessible to All Algorithms (DE)
11:30
João Enxuto & Erica Love
Before Art Project 2023 (EN)
12:30
Nicole Kreckel
Opening (the) database(s) through Digital Copies Brought to Life – Museum Artworks on TikTok (DE)
Focus: Rewriting art history via image databases
14:30
Isabel Seliger
The Digital Unconscious: Understanding the Embedded Phenomena, Historical Entanglements, and Cross-Connections of Non-Western eMuseums and Digital Archives (EN)
15:15
Hidéo Snes
The Architecture of the Future: The archive as a technologist discipline (DE)
16:00
Eva Greisberger & Eva-Maria Schitter
Between Displacement and Dynamisation: Media-didactic Approaches to Digital Image Archives (DE)
End approx. 17:30
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DE - lecture in German // EN – lecture in English